t_aalshalaby

PH.D.
Afaf Al Shalaby
t_aalshalaby@svuonline.org

Qualifications: 

PHD of Informatics Engineering (2014-2018) Department: Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology (HIAST), Damascus, Syria. Thesis: Arabic Text to Speech System Using Semi Syllables Concatenation and Natural Prosody.
Master of Informatics Engineering (2009-2012) Department: Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Informatics, Damascus university, Syria. Thesis: Automatic Prosody Generation for Arabic Text to Speech System
B.S. Degree in Faculty of Informatics (2002-2007). Department Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Informatics, Damascus university, Syria.

Programs list: 

ISE

Courses list: 

ISE.OO - Object Oriented Programming
ISE.AE - Artificial Intelligence
ISE.NLP - Natural Language Processing
ISE.ES - Expert Systems
ISE.ES - Expert Systems

Academic experience: 

teacher in Informatics Engineering in HIAST Institute for fifth, forth and third years: • Natural Language Processing. • Artificial Intelligence and knowledge representation (AI in Prolog, Clips, and Jess). • Expert Systems. • Neural Networks. • Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Expert System. • Genetic Algorithm. • Planning and Machine Learning. • Algorithm and data structure. • Programming in C++.
working in Arabic Text to Speech (ATT system) project. Currently, I supervised of Master Thesis in ATTS
The first premium in فكرة قد تغير العالم 2007-2008 for my project graduation
The first premium in الإسكوا 2007-2008 for my project graduation.
The third premium in فكرة قد تغير العالم 2011-2012 for Our project in Arabic Text to Speech System

Publications: 

O.Al-Dakkak N.Ghneim, A.Al-shalaby, R.Sonbol, Mhd. S. Desouki. Arabic Language resources in HIAST [Conference]. - Cairo, Egypt, 22-23 : Second International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools, April 2009.
A. Al. Shalaby O. Dakkak, N.Alawa. Automatic Prosody Generation for Arabic Text To Speech Systems [Article] // Damascus University Journal for the Basic Sciences. - 2013. - Vol. 29 - No. 1.
A. Al Shalaby O. Al Dakkak, N. Ghneim. "An Arabic Text To Speech Based on Semi-Syllable Concatenation," [Article] // International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS). - 2016. - vol. 11, no. 12
A. Al Shalaby O. Al Dakkak, N. Ghneim. Acoustic Word Stress Analysis for Continuous Arabic Speech [Article] // International Journal on Computer and Communications Networks, Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics. - 2017. - Vol 1, No 1.
A. Al Shalaby O. Al Dakkak, N. Ghneim. " Word Stress Integration in Arabic Semi-Syllable Synthesizer," [Article] // International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. - 2018